Author: Arthur Conan DoylePublisher:
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The Surgeon of Gaster Fell
Author: Arthur Conan DoyleThe Surgeon of Gaster Fell, the Original Short Story
Author: Arthur Conan DoylePublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781511973434
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Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Bleak and wind-swept is the little town of Kirkby-Malhouse, harsh and forbidding are the fells upon which it stands. It stretches in a single line of grey-stone, slate-roofed houses, dotted down the furze-clad slope of the rolling moor. In this lonely and secluded village, I, James Upperton, found myself in the summer of '85. Little as the hamlet had to offer, it contained that for which I yearned above all things--seclusion and freedom from all which might distract my mind from the high and weighty subjects which engaged it. But the inquisitiveness of my landlady made my lodgings undesirable and I determined to seek new quarters. As it chanced, I had in one of my rambles come upon an isolated dwelling in the very heart of these lonely moors, which I at once determined should be my own. It was a two-roomed cottage, which had once belonged to some shepherd, but had long been deserted, and was crumbling rapidly to ruin. In the winter floods, the Gaster Beck, which runs down Gaster Fell, where the little dwelling stood, had overswept its banks and torn away a part of the wall. The roof was in ill case, and the scattered slates lay thick amongst the grass. Yet the main shell of the house stood firm and true; and it was no great task for me to have all that was amiss set right.
The Surgeon of Gaster Fell
Author: Arthur Conan DoyleSurgeon of Gaster Fell
Author: Arthur Conan DoylePublisher:
ISBN: 9780755106486
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Languages : en
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The Surgeon of Gaster Fell, Elias B. Hopkins, and The Ring of Thoth
Author: Sir Arthur Conan DoylePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 263
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The Surgeon of Gasterfell
Author: Arthur Conan DoyleThe Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes
Author: Andrew LycettPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 074327525X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
A portrait based on research into thousands of previously unavailable documents offers an alternative view of the prestigious author that depicts him as a contradictory man who embodied both upstanding and cruel tendencies, covering such topics as his dysfunctional parents, his extramarital affair, and his fanatical pursuit of scientific data. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
The Independent
Author: The Doctor and the Detective
Author: Martin BoothPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466843586
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
This entertaining, smart biography of Arthur Conan Doyle presents a modern day interpretation of the man who, contrary to his best efforts, will always be known as the creator of the great detective, Sherlock Holmes. Doyle was, however, much more, as Booth shows us in this intriguing study of a man who thrived on the times in which he lived. While Holmes fans will be captivated by the various tidbits that offer insight into their hero's creation; others will be fascinated by this living embodiment of the Victorian masculine ideal.
Gothic Tales
Author: Arthur Conan DoylePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192571664
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
'There was a rumour, too, that he was a devil-worshipper, or something of that sort, and also that he had the evil eye...' Arthur Conan Doyle was the greatest genre writer Britain has ever produced. Throughout a long writing career, he drew on his own medical background, his travels, and his increasing interest in spiritualism and the occult to produce a spectacular array of Gothic Tales. Many of Doyle's writings are recognised as the very greatest tales of terror. They range from hauntings in the polar wasteland to evil surgeons and malevolent jungle landscapes. This collection brings together over thirty of Conan Doyle's best Gothic Tales. Darryl Jones's introduction discusses the contradictions in Conan Doyle's very public life - as a medical doctor who became obsessed with the spirit world, or a British imperialist drawn to support Irish Home Rule - and shows the ways in which these found articulation in that most anxious of all literary forms, the Gothic.